Envoy for Christ – NZ Catholic Newspaper https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz The New Zealand National Catholic Newspaper Thu, 27 Apr 2017 03:34:52 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.6.1 25 years as a Catholic apologist sees empathy grow https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/10/20/25-years-as-a-catholic-apologist-sees-empathy-grow/ https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/2016/10/20/25-years-as-a-catholic-apologist-sees-empathy-grow/#respond Wed, 19 Oct 2016 23:44:17 +0000 https://www.nzcatholic.org.nz/?p=13969 Apologetics is that branch of theology that defends the faith with reasoned arguments. St Stephen was doing apologetics before Christians were even called Christians and St Paul seems to savour his intellectual jousts with the Stoics and Epicureans of his day. Irenaeus, Tertullian, and Augustine of Hippo all argued how Christianity was not only fulfilling as regards faith and morals, but was

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